Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to MotionSavvy

You sign, it speaks. Translating sign language to speech.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. MotionSavvy launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Hand Wave▲127

   Turn sign language into speech with smart glasses

   Aug 2026 · handwave.sh · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Speech to Note▲544

   Turn your voice into written notes

   2024 · speechtonote.com · its alternatives →

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   Signily▲89

   Communicate with sign language on iOS

   2015 · aslized.org · its alternatives →

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   Prose▲65

   the worlds first gesture-to-speech app

   2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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   Pinch▲535

   Hey HN! I’m Christian, daily lurker and some might remember our original launch post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42935355). Today we're launching Pinch for Mac, which we believe is a step-change improvement in real-time AI translation. Our vision is to make cross-lingual conversations feel as natural as regular conversations. TL:DR During an online meeting, the app instantly transcribes and translates all audio you hear, and allows you to decide when you translate your voice and when you don't. It's invisible to others (like Granola), and works everywhere without any…

   2025 · startpinch.com · its alternatives →

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   Text to Speech by FlexClip▲116

   AI-powered text-to-speech and voice converter

   2023 · flexclip.com · its alternatives →

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   Verbalate™ Audio Video Translation▲95

   Translation, voice clone and lip sync software

   2023 · verbalate.ai · its alternatives →

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   Bocca▲124

   A push-to-talk tool that transforms your audio into text

   2025 · bocca.dev · its alternatives →

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   Transcense▲127

   Converse w/ the deaf, w/o sign language (pre-launch)

   2014 · ava.me · its alternatives →

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    Speak & Translate▲82

    Instant Voice & Text Translator with Speech and Dictionary

    2015 · bendingspoons.com · its alternatives →

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    Deaf Alphabet▲100

    Convert plain text into sign language

    2020 · deafalphabet.com · its alternatives →

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    gesture.ai▲116

    Easy to use gesture recognition technology and SDK

    2016 · gesture.ai · its alternatives →

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    Speechka▲94

    Real-time voice translation that sounds like you

    29d ago · speechka.io · its alternatives →

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    EasyTranscribe▲93

    Generate transcripts, SRT, VTT & captioned videos

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Duory▲146

    Learn, practice, and reflect with dynamic language notes

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Speechactors▲68

    AI-driven text to speech generation

    2022 · speechactors.com · its alternatives →

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    TTS-API - Text-to-speech API▲111

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    2012 · tts-api.com · its alternatives →

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    Signspell▲74

    Real-time ASL alphabet recognition in py ,pip install and go

    Jun 2026 · pypi.org · its alternatives →

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    Smart Dictation▲90

    Multilingual transcription & translation for Mac

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Signtist▲64

    Watch the pattern and crack the word

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Speechllect▲66

    Speech Intellect is the first STT/TTS solution

    2023 · speechllect.com · its alternatives →

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    SpeakNotes▲71

    AI powered voice note transcriber & summarizer

    2023 · speaknotes.io · its alternatives →

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    SeeMeSpeak, a crowd-sourced dictionary for sign languages▲25

    2013 · kaeff.net · its alternatives →

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    Sign language translation with smart glasses▲26

    Hi! I have relatives that speak sign language, and always found it odd that despite unbelievable advances in AI in recent years, the problem still felt somewhat neglected. Especially with the advent of wearable tech; to my knowledge, this is the first project that integrates the meta glasses w/ fingerspelling translation software. As for the technical aspect, I trained a neural net on Google's FSboard dataset modeling a CNN + GRU temporal encoder architecture (trained with CTC), and then decoded the output with CTC beam search and a KenLM language model to solve some of the deficiencies…

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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